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Google Discover tests expanded weather info at top of feed

Google has once again tweaked its signature Discover feed on Android to offer redesigned and expanded weather information at the top. Beyond simply offering a collection of articles you may be interested in from the web, Google Discover also usually offers a bit of information that may be relevant to your day. This particular role is now poised to become a bit more important for Google Discover…
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Apple will no longer repair iPhones reported as lost or stolen

Apple has always had policies to not provide repair services for lost or stolen devices, but only if they had the Find My feature enabled. Now the company will also deny iPhone repairs if the device is reported as lost or stolen in the GSMA Device Registry. According to an internal memo sent to Apple Store employees and Apple Authorized Service Providers (via MacRumors), the company will now use…
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Google Play Protect marks discontinued YouTube Vanced Manager as ‘harmful,’ prompts uninstall

The feature-adding and ad-blocking YouTube Vanced app was discontinued earlier this month, but the app’s developers said it would continue to work until changes to YouTube’s API killed it off for good. Now, those with the app still installed are seeing Google Play Protect marking Vanced Manager as “harmful,” and prompting the app to be uninstalled. Over the past several hours, Android…
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How to export a Google Doc to PDF in Google Drive

Google Docs has been a go-to product for many for quite a long time. Google Drive can handle complex text documents, as well as easy and simple tasks. One of those is exporting text documents as PDFs. Here’s how to export PDFs in Google Docs. Table of contents Why…
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Classic Hangouts app removed from Google Play and App Store [U]

In the coming weeks, Google Chat will replace classic Hangouts for Workspace customers. As part of this, Google said it would disable the old Hangouts mobile apps, and that looks to be underway with the iPhone app now removed from the App Store. Update 3/29: Hangouts for Android has been removed from the Play Store for new users. It no longer appears in search results, but is still available for…
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